Tuesday, 20 September 2016

At Ryedale Folk Museum we had a school educational visit, back to Anglo -Saxon times, our education Dept can cater for many periods in history, if you are interested please contact Emma Colclough for details: 01751 417367

Emma and Wendy prepare for the first school visit of the new term when we had 60 North Yorkshire school children at the Museum learning about House and Home, Pottery and Weaving in the Anglo-Saxon period.

Friday, 9 September 2016

This weekend entry for Ryedale Folk Museum is free as the museum is participating in the free European Heritage Open Days 2016. So if you are looking for a good day out with the family & dogs, come to Hutton-le-Hole North Yorkshire and pay us a visit. There is loads to see!

Tuesday, 5 July 2016

Photos showing Stang End sometime in the 1800s and also in the mid 1960s. The house was originally built Danby. It was taken apart stone by stone and begun to be moved to the museum in May 1966 where it was rebuilt and restored by 1967/8. It mow appears how it would have been in 1704. At some point in its history, it was extended from
one room shared with animals to a house with a forehouse
(living-room and kitchen), dairy and bedroom.

Stang End, Danby. 1800s

Some parts of Stang End had become derelict by the mid 60s.

Lintel showing date - 1704

The long process of taking Stang End apart and relocating to the museum.

Thursday, 16 June 2016

Visitors will notice a change in the Chemist shop. Unfortunately damp has found its way into the wall and a cupboard has had to be removed to allow things to dry out. Volunteers are busy with it and hopefully it will be replaced soon.

Friday, 27 May 2016

We were fortunate at Ryedale Folk Museum that both the Beadlam Tractor Run and the Tour De Yorkshire passed through Hutton-le-Hole. There was a decent crowd watching, Richard was in the best place at the Museum's Forge making a very good fireplace set on what was a very cold day. One lady collecting for the Yorkshire Air Ambulance was donated some 10 Shilling notes in pristine condition, not something you see every day.

Etcetera
is a new group composed of seven nationally and internationally
exhibited quilt and embroidery artists based in the North of England.
Each member of the group has produced a series of works inspired by
the word ‘transition’. Their personal interpretation of the theme
ranges from the sociopolitical to the more physical explorations of
how stitch transforms cloth.

Linda
Bilsborrow is driven by colour and the interaction of shapes. She
enjoys the process of combining traditional techniques with surface
design and machine quilting. Her Lifeline series deals with the
transitions between different life stages – the phases of our lives
that we all go through but cannot really see until we look backwards.

Julie
Bunter creates textile art that explores the potential of hand stitch
and reflects her fascination with the manipulation of materials. Her
Transition work is an investigation of the making process: the
accumulation of marks and stitches and the transformations that occur
as a line of thread becomes stitch, pattern, structure and language.

Helen
Conway has produced a body of work that explores the process of
transition as experienced by immigrants, particularly in the Brick
Lane area of London. Graffiti marks observed there are used to
symbolize both the changing nature of inner city spaces and the
experiences migrants have in transiting from one language and culture
to another.

Leah
Higgins has drawn her inspirations from man-made structures and
constructs. Her Transition pieces, influenced by visits to Shanghai,
seeks to explore the differences between the new public face of China
and the government control and restrictions that still thread through
every aspect of life.

Isobel
Holland explores the question ‘quilts are stationary, safe and
hopefully beautiful, but what if a quilt can transform into something
else?’ In her Transition pieces she has created a series of work
that incorporates an element of change and challenges traditional
perceptions.

Magie
Relph is heavily influenced by her travels in Africa: the movement of
peoples and objects across vast distances and the changes that take
place along the way.

Sandra
Wyman has created a series of pieces that are autobiographical and
represent a time of personal transition and self discovery.